I PRAISE AND GLORIFY YOU, MIGHTY GOD!
Meditation course: Kneel or sit and see what is bothering you the most now, what you are most afraid of, what you are murmuring the most. Think about whether you can solve your illnesses, troubles, problems, and fears on your own. Then collect yourself before God. Immerse yourself deeply in his presence in yourself and front of you. Then looking him in the spirit straight into the face, start praising him for every detail of your restlessness or illness. Thank him for bringing you into this situation until you feel that peace has overwhelmed you and that joy is springing up in you. Decide that from now on, you will glorify God at every opportunity.
God is omnipotent and rules over everything. He controls every detail of our lives. Without him, nothing happens. He allows everything that happens to us in life. He is the almighty and omniscient God. And there is only one God. We are, therefore, in his hands no matter what happens to us. God is good and he is goodness itself. God loves every work of his. Especially man. He is Love. So no matter what happens to us in life, God always leads to the good. God cannot help but lead to the good. There is no shadow of evil in him. God created man free and therefore man can accept or resist God’s goodness.
Temptations and tribulations come from sin, from man and his division between instinct and conscience. Man is tempted by the Evil One. Faith saves. Faith is opening to God. Temptation is a crossroads in which man is called to make a choice: either to believe that God is at work and that trouble leads to good, or to think that it is evil and not believe in a good outcome from God and close himself to faith. If he opens himself, the trouble is solved. Either God gives me the strength to carry the cross or he takes away the trouble. The sign that we have trusted God is that we glorify and praise him in trouble, knowing this is our privileged moment of faith. Praising God also opens us to trust him, so divine forces enter us and set us free.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
